Marc Barthélemy

32.6k total citations · 12 hit papers
138 papers, 21.4k citations indexed

About

Marc Barthélemy is a scholar working on Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, Transportation and Building and Construction. According to data from OpenAlex, Marc Barthélemy has authored 138 papers receiving a total of 21.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 58 papers in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, 43 papers in Transportation and 31 papers in Building and Construction. Recurrent topics in Marc Barthélemy's work include Complex Network Analysis Techniques (55 papers), Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence (33 papers) and Urban Design and Spatial Analysis (30 papers). Marc Barthélemy is often cited by papers focused on Complex Network Analysis Techniques (55 papers), Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence (33 papers) and Urban Design and Spatial Analysis (30 papers). Marc Barthélemy collaborates with scholars based in France, United States and Italy. Marc Barthélemy's co-authors include Alain Barrat, Alessandro Vespignani, Romualdo Pastor‐Satorras, Santo Fortunato, Luı́s A. Nunes Amaral, H. Eugene Stanley, Antonio Scala, Vittoria Colizza, Mason A. Porter and Yamir Moreno and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Physical Review Letters.

In The Last Decade

Marc Barthélemy

132 papers receiving 20.5k citations

Hit Papers

The architecture of complex weighted networks 2000 2026 2008 2017 2004 2014 2000 2006 2008 500 1000 1.5k 2.0k 2.5k
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. The architecture of complex weighted networks
    2004 2.8k citations Alain Barrat, Marc Barthélemy et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  2. Multilayer networks
    2014 2.0k citations Marc Barthélemy et al. profile →
  3. Classes of small-world networks
    2000 2.0k citations Marc Barthélemy et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  4. Resolution limit in community detection
    2006 1.9k citations Santo Fortunato, Marc Barthélemy Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  5. Dynamical Processes on Complex Networks
    2008 1.7k citations Alain Barrat, Marc Barthélemy et al. profile →
  6. Spatial networks
    2010 1.7k citations Marc Barthélemy Physics Reports profile →
  7. The role of the airline transportation network in the prediction and predictability of global epidemics
    2006 783 citations Alain Barrat, Marc Barthélemy et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  8. Human mobility: Models and applications
    2018 647 citations Hugo Barbosa, Marc Barthélemy et al. Physics Reports profile →
  9. Velocity and Hierarchical Spread of Epidemic Outbreaks in Scale-Free Networks
    2004 512 citations Marc Barthélemy, Alain Barrat et al. Physical Review Letters profile →
  10. Modeling the Worldwide Spread of Pandemic Influenza: Baseline Case and Containment Interventions
    2007 509 citations Alain Barrat, Marc Barthélemy et al. profile →
  11. Structure of Urban Movements: Polycentric Activity and Entangled Hierarchical Flows
    2011 358 citations Marc Barthélemy et al. PLoS ONE profile →
  12. From mobile phone data to the spatial structure of cities
    2014 303 citations Thomas Louail, Maxime Lenormand et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Marc Barthélemy France 52 10.9k 4.1k 2.3k 2.2k 2.1k 138 21.4k
Vito Latora Italy 69 13.9k 1.3× 2.6k 0.6× 5.7k 2.4× 2.6k 1.2× 2.7k 1.3× 219 28.3k
Vincent D. Blondel Belgium 43 6.3k 0.6× 3.1k 0.8× 3.4k 1.4× 2.6k 1.2× 2.3k 1.1× 150 21.9k
Tamás Vicsek Hungary 69 9.0k 0.8× 1.7k 0.4× 7.5k 3.2× 5.0k 2.3× 2.0k 1.0× 223 34.8k
Dirk Helbing Switzerland 81 4.6k 0.4× 13.0k 3.2× 2.0k 0.9× 915 0.4× 4.4k 2.1× 367 41.4k
Alain Barrat France 58 10.1k 0.9× 1.4k 0.4× 1.9k 0.8× 1.3k 0.6× 2.2k 1.0× 170 17.3k
Alessandro Vespignani United States 99 22.3k 2.0× 3.7k 0.9× 4.4k 1.9× 3.5k 1.6× 6.1k 2.9× 282 48.5k
Renaud Lambiotte United Kingdom 41 8.3k 0.8× 1.7k 0.4× 2.1k 0.9× 2.9k 1.3× 2.4k 1.2× 150 19.6k
Alex Pentland United States 95 3.4k 0.3× 4.2k 1.0× 3.9k 1.7× 590 0.3× 4.2k 2.0× 552 57.1k
Tao Zhou China 69 13.0k 1.2× 1.5k 0.4× 3.8k 1.6× 3.1k 1.4× 2.0k 1.0× 499 22.1k
Bing-Hong Wang China 51 5.4k 0.5× 1.7k 0.4× 2.1k 0.9× 691 0.3× 1.9k 0.9× 419 10.5k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Marc Barthélemy

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Ciais, Philippe, et al.. (2025). High-resolution gridded CO2 and pollutant emission data from road traffic in Indian cities. Scientific Data. 12(1). 1986–1986.
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Patwardhan, Siddharth, et al.. (2024). Symmetry breaking in optimal transport networks. Nature Communications. 15(1). 3758–3758. 2 indexed citations
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Barthélemy, Marc, et al.. (2024). Stochastic block hypergraph model. Physical review. E. 110(3). 34312–34312. 1 indexed citations
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Barthélemy, Marc. (2024). The role of parsimonious models in addressing mobility challenges. 1(1). 2 indexed citations
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Barthélemy, Marc. (2022). Class of models for random hypergraphs. Physical review. E. 106(6). 64310–64310. 19 indexed citations
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Barthélemy, Marc, et al.. (2021). From one-way streets to percolation on random mixed graphs. Physical review. E. 103(4). 42313–42313. 7 indexed citations
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Barthélemy, Marc. (2019). Modeling cities.. arXiv (Cornell University). 1 indexed citations
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Barbosa, Hugo, Marc Barthélemy, Gourab Ghoshal, et al.. (2018). Human mobility: Models and applications. Physics Reports. 734. 1–74. 647 indexed citations breakdown →
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Kirkley, Alec, Hugo Barbosa, Marc Barthélemy, & Gourab Ghoshal. (2018). From the betweenness centrality in street networks to structural invariants in random planar graphs. Nature Communications. 9(1). 2501–2501. 124 indexed citations
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Barthélemy, Marc, et al.. (2017). Central loops in random planar graphs. Physical review. E. 95(4). 42310–42310. 12 indexed citations
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Louf, Rémi & Marc Barthélemy. (2016). Patterns of Residential Segregation. PLoS ONE. 11(6). e0157476–e0157476. 41 indexed citations
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Louail, Thomas, Maxime Lenormand, Miguel Picornell, et al.. (2015). Uncovering the spatial structure of mobility networks. Nature Communications. 6(1). 6007–6007. 128 indexed citations
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Louf, Rémi & Marc Barthélemy. (2014). From mobility patterns to scaling in cities. arXiv (Cornell University). 1 indexed citations
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Barrat, Alain, et al.. (2009). Microdynamics in stationary complex networks. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 106(22). 8847–8852. 102 indexed citations
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Barthélemy, Marc & Alessandro Flammini. (2008). Modeling Urban Street Patterns. Physical Review Letters. 100(13). 138702–138702. 178 indexed citations
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Barthélemy, Marc & Alessandro Flammini. (2007). Modeling urban streets patterns. arXiv (Cornell University). 5 indexed citations
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Barrat, Alain, et al.. (2007). Global disease spread: Statistics and estimation of arrival times. Journal of Theoretical Biology. 251(3). 509–522. 75 indexed citations
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Barrat, Alain, Marc Barthélemy, & Alessandro Vespignani. (2004). Weighted Evolving Networks: Coupling Topology and Weight Dynamics. Physical Review Letters. 92(22). 228701–228701. 417 indexed citations
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Barthélemy, Marc, et al.. (2003). Bibliographie indicative. Hermès. n° 36(2). 19–19. 1 indexed citations
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Barthélemy, Marc, Alain Barrat, Romualdo Pastor‐Satorras, & Alessandro Vespignani. (2003). Velocity and hierarchical spread of epidemic outbreaks in complex networks. arXiv (Cornell University). 2 indexed citations

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